Communications Personals
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General and ex-Assistant Attorney General-Antitrust Bill Baer leaves DOJ Friday ... Nexstar Media, which completed buy of Media General (see 1701170068), said: Elizabeth Ryder was promoted to executive vice president-general counsel; Media General's Brett Jenkins was named chief technology officer, a new position at the combined company; Timothy Busch was promoted to president-Nexstar Broadcasting; Brian Jones was named executive vice president-chief operating officer (he was co-COO), reporting to Busch; also elevated at Nexstar Broadcasting are Diane Kniowski, Doug Davis and Mike Vaughn to senior vice presidents-regional managers ... A Wireless appoints George Sherman, ex-Advance Auto Parts, CEO.
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Tom Vilsack, who stepped down Friday as agriculture secretary (see this section of the Jan. 17 issue of this publication), hired by U.S. Dairy Export Council as president-CEO, effective Feb. 1 ... Patrick Ross, ex-Warren Communications News, resigns as Patent and Trademark Office chief communications officer, no plans announced ... Utilities Technology Council adds Sharla Artz, ex-Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, as vice president-government affairs for policy and cybersecurity ... House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said he promoted on committee staff: Rebecca Edgar to deputy staff director; Liam McKenna, general counsel; MJ Henshaw, communications director-press secretary; and Alexa Armstrong, legislative director.
Mintz Levin Intellectual Property practice names Silicon Valley attorney Stephen Akerley, ex-Dechert, a member ... Joining Cambridge Analytica: Darren Bolding, ex-Republican National Committee, as chief technology officer ... Univision Communications announces Jesus Lara, ex-Spanish Broadcasting System, as general manager-digital, content and entertainment for radio ... Epix hires Sandy Ashendorf, ex-BBC Worldwide America, as executive vice president-content distribution ... Telecorp's new leadership team is Jason Cataldo, ex-AMC Group, as president-CEO and director; Eduard Nazmie, Academy of Sciences, director; and Darla Gullons, who has been at Gullons Investments, administrative officer.
Communications/safety applications firm Everbridge adds Vick Vaishnavi, ex-Yottaa, as general manager-IT Alerting and IoT ... Unity augmented/virtual reality firm hires Dave Rhodes, ex-Paradigm, as chief revenue officer ... New York Times Co. announced Senior Vice President-Product David Perpich will be president-general manager, The Wirecutter, which it bought in October (see this section in the Oct. 25 issue of this publication), effective March 5, and he joins the company's executive committee ... High Alpha, tech venture capital firm, names Scott McCorkle, ex-Salesforce Marketing Cloud, executive in residence ... DomainTools names security researcher Kyle Wilhoit, ex-Trend Micro, to lead threat research team ... Joining Wazee Digital is Josh Hatter, ex-Revolt TV and Media, as vice president-operations.
President Barack Obama sent nominations to Senate including for Jason Kearns to be member, International Trade Commission for term expiring Dec. 16, 2024; and Obama plans to appoint Robert Carrigan as member, President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee ... Mobileum adds to board Arun Sarin, ex-Vodafone ... Perrone Robotics adds to board Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and more recently virtual reality startup Modal VR ... TMM, digital video compression firm, adds to board Paul Healy, Gulfstream Ltd., and Pat Cory Arcadipane, Millisecond Technologies.
New on Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition board for three-year terms begun Jan. 1: Sari Feldman, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library, and Elwood Downing, Merit Network; and in other elections Crosby Kemper, Kansas City (Missouri) Public Library, chairman of SHLB board for 2017; with officers including: Robert Collie, Parana River Group, as vice chairman; Denise Atkinson-Shorey, Consortium for School Networking, secretary; and Jen Leasure, The Quilt, treasurer.